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Arrested. Unknown. The 2024 Papua New Guinean unrest occurrred on 10 January 2024 in Papua New Guinea 's capital Port Moresby, later spreading to Lae and other cities. The unrest began following protests by security officers due to a sudden reduction in their salaries and Prime Minister James Marape 's tax deduction announcement which was later ...
Crime in Papua New Guinea, both violent and non-violent, have contributed to the developing country's crime rate being one of the highest in the world. [2] Crime throughout the country, particularly violence-related, has been influenced mainly by rapid social, political and economic changes. [3] An increased rate of unemployment has resulted in ...
Prime Minister James Marape has declared a state of emergency in Papua New Guinea amid an outbreak of rioting and looting, as depicted here in the country's capital, Port Moresby, on Jan. 10, 2024.
In December 2019, the autonomous region of Bougainville voted in a landslide for independence from Papua New Guinea. Due to the country's immense ethnic and linguistic diversity, some national parliament members feared that Bougainville's departure could inspire other regions to demand independence from Papua New Guinea.
On 20 March, the first case in Papua New Guinea was confirmed. The case was a 45-year-old man who had recently traveled to Spain.. April 2020. On 5 April, Elizabeth II, Queen of Papua New Guinea addressed the Commonwealth in a televised broadcast, in which she asked people to "take comfort that while we may have more still to endure, better days will return".
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The Papua New Guinea Post-Courier is a newspaper based in Konedobu, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. [1] It was established on 30 June 1969. Its parent company, The Herald and Weekly Times (later purchased by News Corp Australia ), had acquired what had then been the two main newspapers in Papua New Guinea, the three-days-a-week South Pacific ...
JAKARTA (Reuters) -Indonesian President Joko Widodo met his Papua New Guinea counterpart James Marape in Port Moresby on Wednesday, the latest leader to visit the island nation as major powers ...